Manhood aside, there is a serious edge to Morgan, one he chronicled in his recent memoir “I Am the New Black.” He wrote about his rough upbringing and his troubled relationship with his father, a musician and Vietnam War vet who battled heroin addiction and died from AIDS related to his drug use.

One madcap story line in “Death at a Funeral” involves a guest (played by James Marsden) who mistakenly takes LSD and ends up tripping out on a rooftop.

“If I got high, it was no accident,” asserts Morgan, before recalling the time he smoked an angel dust joint in his early teens. “It’s a good thing we wasn’t on no roof. I’m not built for that so I never tried it ever again.”

He was, however, built for beer. “That was the first award I won in the ghetto — the ‘golden 40 ounces,’ ’’ he facetiously says. “I was nominated in four categories, including best beer pourer and best guzzler.”

His problems with alcohol grabbed headlines in 2005 and 2006 after he was twice arrested for drunken driving. As part of his sentence, he was court-ordered to wear an alcohol-sensing ankle bracelet, which his fictional character Tracy Jordan also wore on “30 Rock.”

Morgan says he’s been sober for three years. “I just did it. We had fun when we was hanging out. I wasn’t doing nothing crazy. I wasn’t Jeff Conaway or nothing. I wasn’t going to ‘Celebrity Rehab.’ ” (He’s referring to the cocaine-addled, former “Taxi” actor who was a patient on the VH1 reality show and recently fell down a flight of stairs.)

“It’s just that I was high profile and the scrutiny was like, ‘Oh, he’s in the club taking his shirt off.’ Where I come from, that was partying. But for mainstream America, that was too much for them. It’s just like Tiger. It’s just like Michael Jackson. He didn’t touch some kids. All you had to do was ask him, ‘Could you please stop grabbing your crotch and pointing?’ ”

As for scandal-scorched Woods, Morgan insists he’s not defending the golfer for cheating on his wife. But, he barks, “What about the females? They knew he was married! You can’t just keep throwing him under the bus. It takes two to tango!

“It’s just like Monica Lewinsky. She did that in the White House — she knew Hillary and Chelsea were sleeping down the hall. You think she cared? Some females can be ruthless and treacherous! They didn’t want no life with Tiger — they wanted a profile ’cause everybody’s got a book now!”

Maybe it’s time for Morgan to visit the barbershop. That’s where he goes to mellow out with old friends because “it doesn’t matter who your are.” He also takes it down a notch by getting in the car by himself, putting on some calming classics like Lou Rawls or Frank Sinatra, and driving “wherever.”

“Music is the antidote to my life,’’ says Morgan, who, over a short span, has just quoted slain rapper Tupac, praised President Obama, compared himself to an aggressive basketballer “crashing the boards” and professed his love for the paparazzi.